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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 34A

34A.(1) Where the Ministry is authorised or required by any provision of
this Act to make any payment by way of compensation or otherwise in respect of
animals or poultry, the Ministry may make the payment to the person appearing
to it to be the owner of the animals or poultry and the payment to such person
shall be a complete discharge of the Ministry's liability to make the payment.

(2) Where, under sub-section (1), any payment is made in respect of animals or
poultry to a person who is not the owner of the animals or poultry, that
person shall, subject to any agreement to the contrary between him and the
owner, be liable to pay to the owner an amount equal to the amount of that
payment and any amount which a person is liable to pay to an owner under this
sub-section may be recovered by the owner as a civil debt due from that person
to the owner.

(3) Where animals or poultry are hired under a hire-purchase agreement

(a)the Ministry may, where a payment is authorised or required to be made
under section two, otherwise than in respect of animals or poultry which have
been slaughtered, treat the hirer as the owner of those animals or poultry;

(b)paragraph (c) of section five, sub-section (4) of section twelve,
sub-section (1) of section thirty-six and sub-section (7) of section forty-one
shall apply to those animals and poultry as if references therein to the owner
included references to the hirer.]

1847 c.14

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